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Cathy Davidson starts off by showing an experiement done for students to close their eyes for 5 minutes in silence then open them and see how their thought process was. The students were amazed that they could not put together everything they had just thought of because their brain was going everywhere and was distracted even without distraction. 80 percent of our neural energy is taken up not by external distractions at all but by the mind talking to itself. This was done at Washington University where dozens of volunteers were hooked up to neuroimaging machines and found out that the brain lights up the screen in all kinds of patterns whether a person is actually doing a task or seemingly at rest.

Cathy Davidson argument is that technology is not a distraction to our brain's in this day in age. Our brain is always being distracted even when we are in complete silence we are still thinking about multiple things at once and cannot focus on one sole thing for a long period of time. Our brains our distracted even without distraction. To be human is to be distractable even without being distracted by our digital age. People think that if we can minimize interruption, block out disruption, narrow our focus, and control our task it will be an efficient way to be productive. The truth is the most disruptive and multitasking workplace is a good thing compared to all the neurons in our brain going crazy all at once. I don't really agree with what she is saying here because I know I have to work in a quiet environment to be concentrated and focused on what I am doing almost all the time or else I will zone out and forget my thought process. Some people like to listen to music while they type or do homework and I just could never do that because the words of the song would throw me off of everything I was thinking about typing or doing.